Got milk? Ancient European farmers who made cheese thousands of years ago certainly had it. But at that time, they lacked a genetic mutation that would have allowed them to digest raw milk's dominant sugar, lactose, after childhood.

The dairy cow normally has her first calf at the age of two when she will be producing around 35 litres of milk a day. In subsequent lactations this figure rises even higher. She will continue to be milked for 10 months - but will be made pregnant again

I wrote an article recently detailing the impacts of rBGH on the welfare of dairy cows. I explained how the use of rBGH was responsible for increased rates of mastitis and how rBGHinjections actually have the potential to decrease milk production. Yet,

Recent incidents of adulteration involving infant formula, other milk products and pet food with the industrial chemical melamine revealed the weaknesses of current methods widely used across the domestic and global food industry for determining protein..

Sounds like Europe is not the only place eating milk and meat from unlabeled clone offspring. In fact, the BBC, UK newspapers and even a US grocer all report that US consumers are digging into clone food, whether or not they know it.

Excessive levels of IGF-1 found in the milk of cows injected with rBGH may pose serious risks of breast, colon and prostate cancer.
The artificial hormone is also notorious for causing the cows much pain and distress.

Milk could be fortified with vitamin D to strengthen bones and prevent heart disease and cancer.The vitamin is credited with a host of benefits but because the body's stores of it are mainly formed by exposure to sunlight.

If you've strolled past the dairy case lately, you might have noticed that it has grown to ranch-size proportions. Dozens of products are labeled "milk," and they spill over onto the nonrefrigerated shelves.

Dr Russell Blaylock, MD (a neurologist) examines how the immune system interacts with the brain and looks at the effects of food additives and vaccines on that interaction.It will suprise some to know that they crave food that they have allegy to.

In the United States, where they don't have supply management like the milk marketing boards in Canada, dairy farmers' survival is typically at the mercy of the market price. Lately that price has been driven down by decreased demand that is reportedly du

Now that the contaminated Chinese infant formula scandal has widened to include dairy ingredients that the U.S. may be importing, we need FDA to step up and protect American consumers. The limited inspections that the FDA proposes are not sufficient to pr